Research and Valuations

Research

Investment opportunities, but also risks, abound in today's commercial real estate markets. MetLife's Research & Valuations team provides astute and actionable market insights that help our current and prospective investors capture investment opportunities and mitigate risks. The MetLife Real Estate Investors’ Investment Strategy Quarterly and our topical white papers are two ways we communicate our most important insights.

The Investment Strategy Quarterly provides investment recommendations based on our views of current and future economic, capital market and real estate market conditions. The recommendations are based on MetLife’s keen understanding of and unparalleled access to information on market fundamentals, transaction activity, development pipelines, and public and private debt markets. Our distinctive approach to formulating real estate investment strategy leverages our in-house expertise in valuations, REITs, commercial mortgages, and CMBS.

In addition to the Investment Strategy Quarterly, we also periodically produce white papers on special topics that are important to development and execution of successful institutional real estate investment strategies.

We hope you find these reports both insightful and pragmatic, and we look forward to continuing the dialogue about investing in US institutional real estate.

Core reality

This article was published in the April 2014 issue of Institutional Real Estate Letter America. The article explains where MetLife Real Estate Investors believes the best core real estate investment opportunities exist in the current market.

The danger zones

In the January 2014 issue of The Institutional Real Estate Letter - America, Richard McLemore, head of real estate research and valuations, discusses how successful management of three types of risk can help investors avoid financial catastrophe.